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About Mamas & Papas:
The company was founded by David & Luisa Scacchetti, just over 25 years ago. According to their website, they are one of the UK's leading retailers in the nursery industry with products ranging from nursery interiors, travel systems, kitchen and bathroom equipment ... Read review
Pliko Switch Completo, reversible seat facing mum or facing the world. Fully accessorized, ... more
complete with cover, zipper hood and zipper rain canopy. Features: Complete With Footmuff/Apron And Raincover, Umbrella folding both with the seat facing the m...
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Pliko Switch Completo, reversible seat facing mum or facing the world. Fully accessorized, ... more
complete with cover, zipper hood and zipper rain canopy. Features: Complete With Footmuff/Apron And Raincover, Umbrella folding both with the seat facing the m...
Postage & Packaging: £3.91 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU THE ORIGINAL PRAMETTE, PEG PEREGO'S ALL NEW PLIKO 'SWITCH' ... more
TAKES THEIR ORIGINAL IDEA AND MADE IT EVEN BETTER! THE MAIN NEW FEATURE IS THAT THE SEAT UNIT IS NOW REMOVABLE, MAKING 'SWITCHING' FROM FORWARD TO REARWARD FACIN...
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Pliko Switch Completo, reversible seat facing mum or facing the world. Fully accessorized, ... more
complete with cover, zipper hood and zipper rain canopy. Features: Complete With Footmuff/Apron And Raincover, Umbrella folding both with the seat facing the m...
Postage & Packaging: £3.91 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Pliko Switch Completo, reversible seat facing mum or facing the world. Fully accessorized, ... more
complete with cover, zipper hood and zipper rain canopy. Features: Complete With Footmuff/Apron And Raincover, Umbrella folding both with the seat facing the m...
Postage & Packaging: £3.91 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Advantages: Attractive, compact when folded, easy to steer, comfy, practical. Disadvantages: Expensive, basket too flimsy.
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About Mamas & Papas:
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The company was founded by David & Luisa Scacchetti, just over 25 years ago. According to their website, they are one of the UK's leading retailers in the nursery industry with products ranging from nursery interiors, travel systems, kitchen and bathroom equipment to toys, baby and maternity wear.
In my opinion, they are overall a high quality nursery product provider, ... ...classified as a "pushchair" by Mamas & Papas (M&P), is suitable from birth to toddler, having a four position backrest, and single handed recline and 3 position legrest. For safety, it has a 5 point safety harness, and "gate" style opening bumper bar. The frame is aluminium, making it lightweight and corrosion resistant, and it has independant suspension and a secondary locking device.
This is one of several buggies I have had, so there will probably be more reviews to follow.
About Mamas & Papas: ================== The company was founded by David & Luisa Scacchetti, just over 25 years ago. According to their website, they are one of the UK's leading retailers in the nursery industry with products ranging from nursery interiors, travel systems, kitchen and bathroom equipment to toys, baby and maternity wear.
In my opinion, they are overall a high quality nursery product provider, with excellent customer service, but unfortunately highly overpriced.
The P3, in summary: ================ The P3, classified as a "pushchair" by Mamas & Papas (M&P), is suitable from birth to toddler, having a four position backrest, and single handed recline and 3 position legrest. For safety, it has a 5 point safety harness, and "gate" style opening bumper bar. The frame is aluminium, making it lightweight and corrosion resistant, and it has independant suspension and a secondary locking device.
Looks: ===== This buggy is very modern looking, and comes in a variety of fabrics, which are frequently updated by M&P, and either a charcoal (grey) or black frame. It has nice chunky wheels, which, as well as looking good, are better for slightly rough ground.
Comfort: ====== I can only go by how my daughter looks in this, as I am WAY too big to test this buggy for myself.
It has a seat which is padded, both where her bum goes and at the back, and also has padded wings (at the side of the head area). My daughter has fallen asleep in this many times, and with a little smile on her face, I have to say she does look incredibly content and comfy. This also helps, due to the fact it has 4 seat positions, ranging from sitting upright, to completely flat (hence being suitable for newborns).
Opening and closing: ================ To open this buggy, you simply hold the handles, hook your fingers under the "triggers", and squeeze upwards, whilst giving the buggy a gentle shake. (You may need to push down on the seat to make sure the locks have engaged). You then press down with your foot on the lever plate (or foot plate) at the back of the buggy, and it is ready for use. Very simple, once you've done it once or twice.
To close, you first have to engage the brakes. Then pull up one trigger on the handle until it locks, and the same with the other. Next pull up on the handle in the centre of the back rest, and continue to pull until it is fully closed - you will just need to check that the locking catches on the sides of the handle are engaged. This is called telescopic folding, and is even easier than opening the buggy.
Reclining the seat: ============== This is very simple - you just locate the recline catch, and lift it upwards. You then pull back until the seat is in the position you require. Let go, and it will click into place. To sit upright again, just pull on the catch whilst pushing the seat back upwards again. The good thing about this, is you can do it with one hand, and whilst baby is asleep in the buggy!
Hood, bumper bar and wheels: ======================== This buggy has a huge hood, which can be very easily opened and closed, and what I like about it is rather than buying an expensive sun canopy, you can pull it down to shade baby from the sun. It is also water resistant for those moments when you get caught out, and don't always need to get the raincover out.
The bumper bar can be opened by pressing upwards on the button which is under the hinge. There is one at both sides which means you can take it off completely if required.
The wheels are made of a hard rubber with a good tread, and can be fixed or swivel. Swivel wheels are good for shopping, and lots of turning, fixed wheels are good on rougher terrain, so the buggy doesn't shoot off in all directions.
Accesories: ========= The buggy comes with a raincover, which is very easy to fit.
You can also get a cosy footmuff in matching fabric, these are £30 to £50 from Mamas & Papas. Matching changing bags are around £45, sheepskin liners are £60 (!!!), suncanopies £30 and parasols £15. You can even get a toy steering wheel to clip on for £20.
If you look on Ebay, you will find loads of other bits for sale, such as cup holders, and playtrays. You can end up spending an absolute fortune on these things.
You can also make the buggy into a travel system by adding the Primo Viaggio car seat, which is very handy, or you can buy them together as a travel system in one package. The car seat alone is £130, so it would probably be a slightly cheaper option to buy together as a travel system.
Cost: ==== From £200 to £250, depending on colour/spec from M&P.
My verdict: ======== I have to say of all the buggies I have had, this has been one of my favourites. It is very easy to operate, and quite compact when folded, if a little tall. It fits snugly in the boot of my old Polo, with room for some shopping.
It is very stylish, and does get lots of admiring glances, and is very comfortable looking. I find it excellent for shopping, as it turns very easily and is quite narrow, so fits through doorways well. It is also good for general out and about walking, due to having decent enough suspension, and the wheels can be fixed if desired. Also, the handles are height adjustable (having 2 positions), so good for the tall and small alike, and very comfortable, being at a slight angle.
The only thing I don't really like about this is the price. I really do thing you pay for the name as an added extra with M&P, although they are high quality products.
The above said, I did not buy mine new, (nor would I for any buggy for that matter), and you can get many a good bargain on Ebay for around £100.
Overall, I really do recommend this buggy, for comfort, style and practicality.
Advantages: Good price, does birth to 3, folds up easily-ish, can attach car seat Disadvantages: Bit heavy, hard to push one handed,
I bought the Pliko P3 as I like the idea of the Viaggo car seat being able to clip straight onto it, but after that stage being left with a perfectly useful umbrella folding one-hand one foot see your toddler right through sort of push chair.
I checked I could hold a large baby in one hand and fold up the pushchair in the other; that it would fit easily into the boot of both our cars (Toyota Avensis and Celica) and that I thought it would see us ... ...and buy a cheaper more lightweight one at sixth months as so many people do.
I have now got a second child who uses it, aged one year.
==The Good Things==
* For a new born baby you can lie it flat, so if you have a summer baby as we did you can use it in place of a pram. this saves buying a bit bulky pram attachment for an extra 100 quid that you will only use for maybe 4 months.
* It does fold up more easily than most travel systems although ...
sadoldbag 23.01.2008
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Advantages: Easy to fold, compact, easy to use Disadvantages: Having to put the wheels on myself!
We bought this pushchair a few months ago for our 3rd child. I previously had a Maclaren 3 in 1 so went for something different this time.
I was a bit surprised when we collected it that it came in such a small compact box, but when folded its just a little bit bulkier than a buggy. However the only thing they didn't tell me was when I took it out of the box - I had to attach the wheels, the brake pad and the cup holder. I know that doesn't seem ... ...impatient to get it done (can't wait for husband to come home from work!), I was a bit miffed at having to do this. The cup holder was EXTREMELY hard to get on - very tight but I suppose it has to be to be secure but I was so scared of snaping it trying to get it on as its plastic.
However once past this stage, the pushchair itself is incredibly easy to figure out how to use - in fact don't bother with the instructions as they make it sound more ...
scaplin 29.08.2006
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Advantages: Looks great Disadvantages: Seat only 9 inches wide (ridiculously narrow), and way too heavy.
The Pliko P3 Pramette has MASSIVE ERGONOMIC design flaws which only become apparent after the initial joy of its gorgeous looks fade away ... you've been warned, please read !
My wife and I are no strangers to prams / strollers / buggies - this is pram #4, and for baby #2. Here's our experiences of the Pliko P3 Pramette from the start :
In "Pram Mode" : when your child is lying flat, on its back, you'll quickly notice that the childs' legs are ... ...prepared to have soft blankets at hand for placing under the child's head, an unacceptable situation I'm sure you'll agree... In addition, there is no harness available in this mode.
However, it's only when your child gets older do you hit the most serious design problem of the Pliko P3 pramette. In fact, you wonder why on earth you never noticed it from day one ... When zipped-up the Pliko P3 pramette chair is trapezoidal in design : 7 inches deep, ...
StrollerMaster 26.04.2008 (27.04.2008)
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Advantages: Well designed folding mechanism, compact, easy to use Disadvantages: Maybe a bit fragile?, not recommended for rough terrain
I don't think I can add a great deal more in respect of the functionality of the buggy than the other reviews. I agree with almost all the points they make, but I would just like to add a couple of things with regard to build quality and the environment in which you can practically use.
I think that our buggy may have had a high mileage life, probably around 3 miles a day on average for a year. Perhaps that's more than most, I don't know. As such ... ...the frame became a lot less sturdy than at purchase, to be honest it's frankly now quite wobly, the joints seem to have lots of play in them. I doubt this has an impact on safety, but it does make steering a great deal less responsive, and it just feels odd.
The tires on the wheels are also easily damaged, we have numerous chunks out of them where they have been torn by sharp objects perhaps. Again, nothing major, and maybe I should just expect ...
capitalpete 18.05.2007
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Advantages: Small and compact yet fully comfortable and spaciouse Disadvantages: Very Pricey but worth it
Well first of all i purchased a second hand pliko pushchair in 2005 and it was really easy to use and very reliable even being second hand. Then when i realised that they had improved the style of the chasis and fabric designs i started looking for a new model that i could upgrade to. At this point my son was about 8 months old and starting to wriggle about and eat biscuits etc in the buggy, so i purchased a new PLIKO P3 in city scape fabric [ which ... ...tto regret it as the slightest drop of food or milk and it showed up like a flood light in the dark. I have used the buggy up until now and its still going strong with many years use still left in it. I have now purchased my 3rd pliko p3 and the matching primmo viaggio car seat and base as my 5th baby is now here. I have this time purcased a lighter colour with different colour contrasting fabric [Mondrean colourway] , In hope that i wont need to ...
galaxy2.3i 15.08.2007
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